Georg Sørensen

Curriculum Vitae

Position:

Professor, International Politics and Economics, Department of Political Science and Government, University of Aarhus. Appointed Jens Christian Skou Senior Fellow, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, for one year, beginning 1 February, 2014.

Major academic credentials:

Recent book on liberal world order (2011) finalist, 2012 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Cited as “concise, sharp, balanced, and indeed critical. This makes it a masterpiece of liberal thinking” (Michael Zürn).

Recent book on fragile states (2012) cited as “tightly argued and brilliantly written … worth a whole library of studies on nation-building, fragile states and foreign interventions” (Pierre Hassner, Survival 2012).

Recent book on democracy and democratization shortlisted for Estoril Prize, 2009.

Book on “Changes in Statehood” (2001) called “a tour de force. Georg Sørensen integrates some of the best European and American thinking on international relations into an original argument” (Robert O. Keohane).

‘Would it make sense to use the term "fragile statehood" as a category for orientation and action?’ I: Fragile Statehood. Can Stability and Peace be Advanced from Outside?. red. / Jörg Calliess. Loccum: Stollfuß Verlag Bonn GmbH & Co. KG, 2006. pp. 39-49.

‘The Transformation of the State’, pp. 190-209 in Colin Hay, Michael Lister and David March (eds.), The State. Theories and Issues, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

‘Democracy, Dictatorship and Development. Consequences for Economic Development of Different Forms of Regime in the Third World, pp. 39-57 in Claude Auroi (ed), The Role of the State in Development Processes, London: Frank Cass, 1992.

‘Economics and Politics in International Relations’, pp. 36-60 i Helena Lindholm (ed.), Approaches to the Study of International Political Economy, Göteborg: Padrigu, 1992.

‘Third World Democratic Experiences and Development Theory’, pp. 86-107 i John Martinussen (ed.), Development Theory and the Role of the State in Third World Countries, Roskilde: International Development Studies. Også fremlagt ved IPSA SV World Congress, Buenos Aires, July 21-25, 1991.

‘Development through the Eyes of a Child’, pp. 196-212 i Elise Boulding m.fl. (ed.), Peace, Culture and Society. Transnational Research and Dialogue, Boulder: Westview, 1990.

International Center for Public Enterprise (projects on the role of public enterprise in developing countries).

Various other consultancies for Danish and International organizations working with development and international relations.

Member and/or head of evaluation committees for positions of professor or associate professor, university and research institute positions in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, various European countries and the United States.

Awards & Grants:

Aarhus University Jubilee Foundation, Research Award 1994.

Various research grants, Aarhus University, Social Science Research Council, Council for Development Research, Council for Peace and Conflict Research, Nordic Council for International Relations.